I understood that the free 1000 text offer from t-mobile expired on 31st December 2005
(i.e. you had to activate a SIM before that date to benefit)
To have obtained it, you needed to activate your Mates Rates PAYG SIM (by topping it up), then T-Mobile would have automatically sent you a text to confirm that you have 1000 free texts (available to use within 90 days of SIM activation)
Text chat, text play, text game messaging, texts to landlines, group text, text to non-UK networks, texts to premium rate numbers and texts sent from abroad were all excluded.
Is there another offer?